Trying to save face as reporters questioned him on why he had not publicly commented on the deadly ambush of four U.S. soldiers in Niger earlier this month, President Donald Trump falsely claimed on Monday that former President Barack Obama didn't call the families of fallen service members.

“The traditional way, if you look at President Obama and other presidents ― most of them didn’t make calls. A lot of them didn’t make calls. I like to call when it’s appropriate when I think I’m able to do it,” Trump said.

“They have made the ultimate sacrifice, so generally I would say that I like to call. I’m going to be calling them. I want a little time to pass,” Trump said during a press conference in the Rose Garden on Monday.

When pressed by reporters during the press conference in the Rose Garden on Monday afternoon, Trump admitted he didn’t know how Obama dealt with the families of fallen service members.

"President Obama, I think probably did sometimes, and maybe sometimes he didn't. I don't know. That's what I was told," Trump said.

Obama’s official White House photographer, Pete Souza, posted an image of the Obamas consoling the parents of Sgt. 1st Class Jared C. Monti, who was killed in June 2006 in Afghanistan while helping fellow soldiers.